Latest Mississippi Headlines
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Keep the Mississippi Wind Pool Free of Politics
Feb 23 2018 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney wants the state Legislature to pass legislation to give him much more control over the Mississippi Windstorm Underwriting Association and how it manages its finances. That...
Arson Arrest Made For Fire At Mississippi Delta Community College
Feb 12 2018 // A joint investigation between the Mississippi State Fire Marshal’s Office, Mississippi Delta Community College (MDCC) Police Department, Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, Sunflower County Sheriff’s...
Mississippi to Offer Free Vehicle Inspections of Hurricane-Damaged Vehicles
Feb 5 2018 // The Mississippi Insurance Department (MID) and the Mississippi Collision Repair Association have partnered to protect residents from buying cars damaged by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. Officials say thousands of...
Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Backs Bill to Increase Authority Over Wind Pool
Feb 5 2018 // Mississippi’s insurance commissioner is pushing a bill to strip a tax subsidy and authority from the state’s insurer of last resort for hurricane-prone coastal residents. Commissioner Mike Chaney says the...
Mississippi to Offer Free Vehicle Inspections of Hurricane-Damaged Vehicles
Jan 30 2018 // The Mississippi Insurance Department (MID) and the Mississippi Collision Repair Association are partnering on an initiative designed to protect residents from buying cars damaged by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. Following...
School Testing Vendor Data Breach Exposes Info of 663 Mississippi Students
Jan 29 2018 // Mississippi education officials said last week that a recently disclosed data breach by a testing vendor has exposed information from 663 students in Tupelo and Jefferson County. State Superintendent Carey Wright said that...
Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Backs Bill to Increase Authority Over Wind Pool
Jan 26 2018 // Mississippi’s insurance commissioner is pushing a bill to strip a tax subsidy and authority from the state’s insurer of last resort for hurricane-prone coastal residents. Commissioner Mike Chaney says the...
Weather Service Confirms EF-1 Tornado in Mississippi
Jan 25 2018 // The National Weather Service confirms a tornado touched down in southern Mississippi. A mobile home was damaged in the Monday morning storm while some sheds and barns were damaged. National Weather Service meteorologist...
Mississippi-Based BancorpSouth Changes Name to BXS Insurance
Jan 9 2018 // BancorpSouth Insurance Services, Inc., headquartered in Tupelo, Miss., and a subsidiary of BancorpSouth Bank, has undergone a name change as of Jan. 1, 2018 and is now BXS Insurance. According to BXS Insurance President...
MS Amlin Creates Bermuda-Based Reinsurance Sidecar, Viribus Re
Jan 8 2018 // MS Amlin, the London-based specialist re/insurer, announced that a Bermuda-domiciled special purpose reinsurer, Viribus Re Ltd., has been created to provide collateralized capacity support for MS Amlin Syndicate...
Mississippi to Stop Suspending Driver’s Licenses Over Unpaid Fines
Jan 8 2018 // A top Mississippi official said in December that the state will stop suspending people’s driver’s licenses purely because they haven’t paid court fines and fees, meaning tens of thousands of people who...
Beale to Succeed Philipps as CEO of MS Amlin
Jan 4 2018 // MS Amlin announced that Simon Beale, MS Amlin’s chief underwriting officer, will succeed Charles Philipps as CEO on April 1, 2018. With immediate effect Simon Beale will become deputy CEO, James Illingworth will...
Mississippi Reports No Fatal Crashes Over Holiday Weekend, 61 DUIs
Dec 27 2017 // The Mississippi Highway Patrol says nobody died in traffic accidents on roads they monitored during the long Christmas weekend. The holiday enforcement period on state and federal highways began Friday evening and ended...
Weather Service Reports Possible Tornado in Southern Mississippi
Dec 22 2017 // The National Weather Service says a possible tornado has touched down in southern Mississippi. Forecaster Robert Ricks says people saw a funnel cloud north of the Salem community in Walthall County. Ricks says radar...
Mississippi to Stop Suspending Driver’s Licenses Over Unpaid Fines
Dec 21 2017 // A top Mississippi official said Tuesday that the state will stop suspending people’s driver’s licenses purely because they haven’t paid court fines and fees, meaning tens of thousands of people who lost...
Fire at Mississippi Community College Believed to be Arson
Dec 19 2017 // Surveillance video shows that an intruder lit the fire that damaged a building at a Mississippi community college. The predawn Thursday blaze damaged more than half of Mississippi Delta Community College’s...
Feds: Mississippi City Owes $850K in Police Officer Back Pay
Dec 18 2017 // A Mississippi city will pay more than $850,000 in back wages to more than 100 police officers following a federal investigation of payment practices. Tupelo Mayor Jason Shelton’s administration released a statement...
Heavy Snow Causes Problems Across the Southeast
Dec 11 2017 // An unusually heavy December snowfall across much of the Deep South tapered off Saturday, but icy road conditions left problems and thousands remained without electricity throughout the region. Forecasters warned that...
Hospitals in Mississippi, Alabama Sue Opioid Manufacturers Over Addiction Costs
Dec 5 2017 // Hospitals in Mississippi and Alabama are suing more than a dozen pharmaceutical companies, claiming the companies deceptively marketed and sold opioids. The Clarion Ledger reports the class-action federal lawsuit was filed...
Insurer Says Policy Doesn’t Cover Mississippi Building Collapse
Dec 4 2017 // Hudson Specialty Insurance has sued in federal court in Natchez, Miss., to nullify a policy covering a building that collapsed July 23 in the City of McComb, saying coverage was voided after the building owner took money...
